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CheSaeLlc C(memcqn.
February 2, 1918.
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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 191E.
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THE " EAELIC AMERICAN " AND THE MAILS.
present status h her. it is not
possible to answer these letters. li
we can d s to s such expiunstion
we cm in thi
so
ernment oi the United Sistes or any of
, its policies. Tin: metro Asimcn has
never had a line oi such criticism since
America alumna:
the origin cfw the action hsiien
we have received no Information. We
draw- onr own conclusions. huut it is not
necessary to state them. rreeders
are equally free to draw theirs.
think we are at liberty to
the Department oi Justice. and
that it hoses its action on a decision of
a Moral .lndga in California. which
will he found in another part oi this
paper, Wen-inks no comment on that
decision. it speaks for itself. we may
also say that the New York Post onice
had nothing to do with the matter ex-
cept to obey ordsrs.
e are also‘ glad to be able to inform
our'resders that the Post omce Depart
men: has returned auzooplas oi the
papers which were h irons the
mails. wtth xnress undersuhdius
that they shall not be mailed tos
scribers or anyone else.
first .
tor their efforts to points a satisfactory
settlement at ihec case. cG
happened It) be in Washington It the
time the news reeched him. set to work
at once nnd. to the neglect oi his own
business, remsincd on the job a whole
week. its as ioined later by Judge
Rooney, who look up the legal end of
then use and worked unratuiitingly on a
must dlmcult prohlam
All we know about the future is that
abuse will rest with use on
coming weeks news will be
coming lrom Engilnd Ind lrelsnd shout
the report cl’ the sir-called "lrish Cour
veritlon." the views of English and lrleh
t and tho
“1, Irish Independence.
. Cork meltly Examiner oi Decemh
our peoplc will hs It A gnu disldvlil-
Wu know now that the enemies of the
Irish people In New York Ira gleefully
ilntlcipntlng the permanent suppression
of
the three papers. "pins that it will
shut oil tree discussion on the action 01
th
d
months and leave it entirely in the
hands oi lreisnd's enemies. These
enemies of ireisnd are very badly inls<
taken. Even it ry irish paper in
merlcl should be suppressed. irish
occurred during the inst
couple ot weeks sitoriis a very good
essmp is Not more than 150,000 peo
ple, ninesteiiths of them lrieh. would i
have read what was in the hatred hum-
t a o
lgnnm and published ths subsunc. o!
the objectionable Articles. So that t e
Itlinll likent to keep 150.000 Irish Dec.
pih from reading tha unifies was
Placed boron 100,000.000 of Amerluns.
Among those wars. of (curls, millions
of irish men and en who never
r a
heard
was the finest advertisement that any
oi these papers had ever had and which
they could not secure for money. And
we know that it set many Americans
thinking shout thstirish Question who
were giving it little or no attention be
S f re.
thisv r happens as s consequential”
ot the report at Lloyd Georgl's “lriah
Convention"w ill be discussed by irlsh-
me n in America, and their action will
he made es ms tier of news which even
the hostile pipers will be compelled to
puhlieh Appeals will he made to the
Government in Wsshingtoo. hsclscd by
millions ot citirens. and they will not
be any less edective because there are
mils Br emersvncy in ireisnd. dill:-
Lsnd
Spencer. the English Lord Llsuntensnt,
when suppressing Imperms pub-
lic meetings and lling the iailsg with
who were
u I reason (or
the action of the Government the access
ally of “driving discontent beneath the
surhce" The world own 0
he succeeded in lupin: the Home
dl makin it such an
irresistible force that England was
compelled to yield.
don't sccuse the Government in
Wsshington oi havin up any such inten-
tion in this case. rhs President and
most of ti" Cabinet. H‘s absorbed In the
grad: problems oi the war and have
probably left the decision oi this small
cars to departmental omcisls an t we
lose cw that t eho ope of certain innuen-
tiai people in Nut York is the some as
thst of Lord Spencer when he iooilshly
talked of "driving discontent beneath
the luff-1's" Lord Spencer was s sen-
slblo msn. who st that time did not
5'3
spoke in heat hhd Passion.
recovered his poles, became an advo-
cate of Home Rule e. and we one of the
man who helped to 8convert Gladstone
We ho l Lol‘
9
e
o
E
2.
so Anxious to muzzle the Irish in Amer-
ica and who are shouting “traitor" at
eve mall who chumpions ths clusa of
That cause
lived for more than seven Centurlss: it
outlived the massacres of Elizabeth and to
Cromwell. ths hutcheries of 1793; the
English-made Find us of 1841;' tho
awful Clearances of the ‘l-‘lfties; the
all zen Coercion ACE. and
go down now her re
the puny erlorts oi the Roosevelis, the
Roots, and ll’ieOr Orhses
hlow struck at Tm: Game
0
m, an very thin ice
d > as and III”
In have overrsodssd themselves. and
fa lien into the toils iii the An court
ollce. The mudsmwte and loyal lrls:
hiv vs their tur are as
anxious for lrelsi‘ild's whettlement It hams
ory
whose relations
mirth oi the U. S.- rlnesl
We Are concerhsd only with that por-
Ths “leading Irishmei‘i in the Eastern
Stltes” to whuln Mr. Leslie refer: Ira,
we suppose. ths men whose endorses
merit of the dsclslons of (ha "Conven-
deed, it has yet arrived at any.
these gentlemen srs lenders of we shnil
have no chanoe‘ of learning until their
names IN disclosed But oi this we
sire certain. thst Mr. Leslie is not in
touch with any real leaders or lrish
opinion in America.
And we are not bothering about Mr.
Leslie's hopes as to the kind is a meas-
ure the “Convention" may "win." We
are willing to take lt tor xranlAd that arm
he wishes it to he as large as the ins
terests oi the British mnpirs. to which
he is supremely loyal. will permit. If
he coniined himself to that kind oi
thing '6 should have nil fault to dud,
W t
h e
statement that "H
ls headed in Amer!“ JusL now."
But it is lucky for him that lhls state
ment was not published in America, int
mead 01 in An Irish paper to which his
friend give it. Attorney‘Ga‘llerul Greg.
ory might be sttor his scalp. for it is
tantamount to saying that thosro Is no
enthu slits for the war
OAnlc AllanKICAV Ills never mlzld that
and does not lay it now, but (sea content
to warn Mr. Legit
We take it for granted that the letter
sgennlns and that Mr. Leslie won‘t. be '“
compelled to complain of another
‘nnohyinous" attack. We also take it
2 other
statements In the latter.
memo Slim Fell] Part
have overreuhed themselves!
and have (alien into the tails ol the
po
3 drst hull of this sentni‘lt‘e is In
cxprassion of 0Plnlo on. to which l r
Leslie is entitled, no matter how ridicu-
lous lt Inn but the list halK is I
downrlsht falsehood.
a throneeri whether Mr. Leslie is the in-
velltor of the falsehood or only the res
taller; he is responsible for uttering it,
knowing it to be I ialsehoud. No
American Slim Felnef. Friend of Irish
5??
eed
believer in SipnP‘e hill to
the toils of the police," gun indicted.
trle d. or otherwise char are: ed by say re-
sponsible odldlll with any breach ol
Am eriran law. for the simple reason
that not I scrip of evidence exlsts on
which such action could'be tk
such I thugs Inside. Mr. Leslie's ex-
uberliit loyalty to King Georls Ind his
dyslrn to huvo the King‘s enemies mn-
ionnded or destroyed has led him into "
this demonstration 0 real for His
Majesty‘- lntvresu. His habit a! mine
Mirapresanting his oppo muenmwhich is
the only thlAhz Irish about hlrn-is hard
hrea And this adort has done the
Kings cause no good. any more than it
has dons harm to
whom hs hears false witn
it is quite true that the“. newsp papers
(outrun-d by Mr. Leslie’s "lend Lord
Northclitle have Had a lot about the
men Iguinst whom he now prmrlcnles,
but mil.”I one of these Journals has re-
Anssrcs AN involves comporstiveiy heavy pm m. my 0, mm nu om,“
ilnsncisi loss. with a pro speci or much m“ m. mm o: the Wm... Even
more. but we hope to survive. .vve shull paw ”Hem "3mm do“ mg u can"
continue. as before, to strupulously ra-
train irom criticism is! the Government.
its polities. and its higher uhicials, and
we shall try hard not to write "abuse"
at England that will not be allowed to
go through the mails. But we
criticlsu the action of Englund
clans be justified, and we shall continue
to discuss the Irish Question. as we ha are
always dons. from h taudpoint
National Independence ( so a small
edicts: should decide that this course
is a violation or the Espionage Law
shall appeal against hfh decision. and ii
the decision should be against us and
per he suppressed, it will go
down with its colors nailed to the meet
-the Sfars and stripes and the Green.
White and Orange Tricolor of the Irish
Republic.
lESLlE AN IMCUMELE PREVIRICATOR.
A friend sends us s clipping from the
er as,
which contains the following:
it is or the utmost lmpo IIour
people hereI that they geti as Mr. Shane Leslie. writing from wash-
, ington on November 24 to Mr. R
to all this' and that the fullest hlnd Kent KC. m "m mm“ mm
treeet discussion Id I K 0 men in the Eastern States have "w
that majority
falsely accuse it of being anti American.
only by in 119’s"
supper tad
shall w
towards w
m ireisnd. it in our Judgment the criti-
‘ plot here to start on
which he said he had sediired evidence
to prove that some men whose identity
he only hinted st, were engaged in n
n ireisnd. The editor of Tan Gusto
AMERICA! at once branded Flynn as no
in lsnpudent iisr snd challenged him to
produce his evidsn nee, it he had any,
o sproper authorities hir. be
lie knows this. sud he also knows that
Flynn oslgned" his position some time
later; that no indictment
"Dial." sith its German Enron and its
slx Turks "about to hurt iQK Ireland."
were the groundwork for a moving plo-
ture thriller invented by Chlsi Flynn-
nn audacious lramO-uv thn i fell to
pal am at once Ind Contribunted largely
. to the retirement oi its inv
Leslie sends the im m.pu
5 dent falsehood to lrellnd that "tho er t o
me stop rein Party
“lhe
Amer
dent
- knows enthusiasm
II nesdw‘ in Ameriol lust. new 0
tolls of the police."
who his overruched hlmself.
incurable prevarimtor who can't be
I-ihs some use SlnnI rein Party in Asian min-GI int-n speaking truly at than
at he is treading
t
it doesn't mutter v”
Cinn-nl-Gssl IIns-n. oIr other “I
the men BgBlns t D
ther insurrortion attac
who In the “remit: nl "Our Lord the
Iii-Is"
As to Leslie’s reference to the “milder-
it is as tsnlastic as his "cock and bull"
'story about the others tailing into the
to “us oi the police." 01 course. he as-
esthst no lrlshmnn here can hs
loyales to the united states unless he is
also loyal to the Sovereign oi England.
siieglnnce to whom he renounced when
taking out his iii-st cltisenship papers
0 Co
American loyalty. Mn syn of teh men
alnst hom he insinuates disloyalty
were born in Am rice, of them
sre sons of men who fought in the Civil
War, and not a tow served in its harsh
est battles and wear the badge oirthe
Grand Army at ihaI Republic. And all
at them are more loyal to the United
Sutes than Leslie, whose allegiance is
oTKiilgm Gear
he ost impude out part of Leslie's
letter is that whirls refers to the lrish-
he Amerlr rm . as if
were in intimste communication with
them The men sttorks numhe:
many thousands slid the army is lined
with their nesrast relatives and iriends.
Some of them have more than one son
and many oi then-i harshrothers in the
hey hare no need to as
L ow their relatives and
iriends in unIiiurm real and think about
ireisnd. l some or these soldiers
could see Leslies letter they wouidr
at
English licksnittls lies so impude'ntly.
v
THE COURSE OF THE WAR.
a drama oi the Russian devolu.
tion unfolds. it is seen that it
ir notion w
originally started it with the sole
o r
jest oi getting rid oi nrisrn. neve
contscn i d. They r ected to stop it
halfway between the or an the
IpIutting into practise through the Tri-
nivirilte composing the Bolshevlki Dl-
rectorate. Lenine. Trotsky and KIY‘
en'l'khe published utterances of these
three men show then to
(he ey h
ability against hostile forces within Ind
- They in succeeding
in consolidating the sentiment of the
that
revolution have been
is
st
2
a
3
so
E
a
El
'2.
5'
=-
n
is
is
failed to eflect by their great Revolu-
tion? The prohlsm then which the
Russian leaders huve set themselves to
Aitnirs and the peace negotiations.
erermsny and Austria would
and the establishment of such s Radical
iispuhiic convenient to their policy as
developed in the Reichsthg by the Ger-
man Chanceilo or last week is a ques
tion, as is also how far it may aitec
the large body of Radicul and Socialist
end rel
in Bulgaria along the Danube. all
seems to be quiet. this being the depth
of the Winter, but in Macedonlh to the
south there has some activity
along the fllhtlng front without, how'-
ever, any definite results. Thu naval
lotion oil' the Dnrdanslles between the
Turcoaermau cruisers sud so
British wsr vessels was an interesting
1
Got
materially weakens [I]: Turkish nlvol
defen lira of tho Ms
On thl Wlsurn F:i7nt, including the
ate and loyal man here" and his or t
I sumption oi the right to speak for them.
- lenl. while from Mesopotamia there hits
m and in Anatolia sii has been quiet in
masses agsinst the attempts at counter-
, He put
ground thlt time.
y T
bright things
. hioc k1 near our house last niiondny "our
was an undermkers shop
a
5 And it they sell it by the ton.
the orcupied aoumaninn territory snd T
ms at work digging them Iout. saluted him
(it;
ltullll‘i. there bean continuous
a
point or points that will he struck at
wills the greatest intensity. but as yet
it is mere guess ork, the concentra-
tlons requisite not having yet been com.
plated on either side. the num-
f man divisions oreonrisd as-
stemming. reinforced it is said, by Aus-
on the French Front, the heavi-
uxllectsd to play their part. Coincldent-
ally with the preparations reported are
certain changes ih n Blitish cam-
tnsnds after inquiry into the causes of
the near disaster It Csl‘nhrnl. The fact
that the British have had to tako over
more lathe II‘i-etit‘h Front. ins
ood by their Allies.
Austro Glenn“ progress in italy con-
tinues to be greatly hampered by the
ehnevy snowiniis on their lines oi com-
municstlon. which have also compelled
a. withdrawal oi port of their line in the
The Italian resistance along the Piava
seems to have gathered strength enough0
to check the Austrian advance, especi-
ully on ths lower reach“ 0! the river
and at its mouth on the Adriatic. From
ii at the
cellvn supplies and rent for their raids
in the Mediterranean. Shou id dsuch an
a. it wlll be wutched with
use [or the Allied lIlleets Into the Blltl"
otake it in
in Palestine the British have advano
ed twelve miles north bayou d Jerusa-
bcen no news of tiny kind. The evacua-
tion of Persia by Russiln Ind Turkish
troops is said to have been agreed on.
the Far East. the J p c e Government
has declared ’itself determined to act
promptly and with nrmness the meme t
Japanese
is a diet
Vladivostok along with British. The
Boishevikl Directorate has ordered its
troops there to resist any Ittsml‘t ata
JhpuuasoIlhnding, or s .lspaosss occupo
tion of plum.
have sent. troops.
Nobody has had the foresight to stake
time b pompa adou
that mosquitoes might be 5m
sate tor hnciile-
Teddy,h Ilv'llo went hm Washington to
“speed up.’ bowed A due burst
of speedh lgegstting balm hora m to Oyster
the wrong ear to the
The Colonel at icest hud the pleasure
of drinking tea with Billy Sunday while
in Washington, but Billy didn't once
forget himself an orb the-Onions
out of his saucer.
haw ay train over in I’Brooklyll got
the wanderiust lust Sn and ran
away for three miles. buty hurl pg a
proper respect tor luvv and order stohvod
tor a policeman
got an easy lob
We ' vs in View. if
we' re put out of business-cracking
nuts while owe slt dow wii but the y’ll
have to he English walnuts,
give you an idea ot how nice snd
were on the business
lug. ti ouniy estury nsay that the
cheeriest lookinge piscs oi business there
so time of the daily pipers suggest that
Atn eriu Ills might. cut the H. . a! L.h
Eating llzrhrd, as the fol iks do down in
Haytl.
We a like some lllzard piping that,
But tell us where it trln be
nil
it's (‘00 oliei‘l-rareo or well
Newspupei‘ heIIIdllne reAds-“Artisi. It
Thr lit Mee tngl That‘s proper
Place for him -lt ll
atllie to practice thrift these
mien Eheat and pork cannot be had
Up sths price of cod and on
he “kisds” will who cap it no and cheer
ii cnstor oii gets scarce and den
Some people are never sltlsned with
What God sends them
had a hountitul crop of potatoes-
goodrsized sound tubers. fit for the
table. His neighbor. John Casey. dilv.
all
with cuslomhry blush the
"You have a due
,I"
wehatll we do tmo feed lilac pigs.
dlcutes h lsltirlnlirags at the French (area of
lndlwtlons in tho dosphtchel it appears ‘
whither the Chinese
’ Co
really an art to he
till] Co
Charley cassidy it
BRITISH OFFICER FINEI)
FOR INSULT T0 AMERICA.
I Mali With IIrish I'Nama First
Knocks Him Down and Then
Hus Him Arrested.
(iron. the New York Herold,
snusr
rrsn air A. Leonard 2tliirtyiivo ye."
old. on d wss e n tain the
English Roy Fusiliers and t he
spent three ear the tr c e wu
or good store Magistrate Corrlgnn
in the police court wit u out in.
chin. uniform soiled, .
lined til), in dotsuit oi vih ch in we.
iocIkIeId the Yorkviile Com
PrThe complainant was "luck" Hornn,
an American about six teet tail sud
weighing 250 sun 3. who told the
pin tr t Leom is shout on
feet five inehe IIIllg
ran be in
when the English army a mid "No
bloody leriurl run s ii and knock
me out " Ho an old the CouriI.m "I step.
psd up to him and knuckedh out."
- 'hsn Magic rate Cori-iganm sake d
whht htnd any 7, thin Leonard
Said Ill; be believed is:p wus knocked
uI-lu said he was talking ships Ind did
not recall making the utterance
Magistrate Corrinn said: “YE
You ruined B disturbance there.
I line you $ I).
+
LAW SAYS U. S. HAS TAKEN
9- NO HAND IN IRISH QUESTION
NDON Jilliuary 23. -ln reply
question by Colonelc hArthur
35 ' the irisls Question have been rareived
am
by Premier Lloyd Gen
BRITISH SOLDIER HELD
FOR CRITICIZING CAMP.
(From the New York Tribune,
)
ANOOGA. Tenn, iinusry ri.
oh held pond in: instructions from
the Brililili Emhsas
or statements by members or
his commission reflecting on American
soldier
Publiutl tlnn of Faro uhhrs remsrks
caused a decide IId sensation in army cir-
cles attho snedth irie mherso:
the British mission are perturbed over
e.nt
estilieinc
t For rtluhar declares that his
stxstsmems that it required half of the
ants es s s
berries n he construction at tchu kits ”‘9“ to guard the other
he erry pie ext Summer. hair And that there were too mni iy men
A coniined ohsrrscks for petty Iintrsc-
tions were“ made in a ’nculnrv
IRISH WOMEN’S MEETING
TO URGE IRELAND’S RIGHTS
Gare at inlemst is manifested in th
mass meeting to he held on Thursday
escn ng. he run: , at iiaennerchor
Hall, 203 Ens tFitty- sixth Street. LIL-E“
Third Avenue, New: or): Iluzldal'II t a an
.s soi’C Cums
The list of distinguishdh spegkers in
eludes ‘lrs.l-lai1nB SheehySkemlsEtanl
Peter Golden, Rev. William Livingston.
Revi1 Peter Illa xlIu.genilis and John Dovoy.
gwlll r0119“ st 8215 P. M.
Adinlssiflne will be ree. Lovers o! freo-
' dom are Invited
LEAVE ME ‘ WITH
MEMORIESI
By .7. .1. WALsu.
MY
0)). wild winds fake me otr lhh seas
i-o tins t Green isle. cisr.
And let me siee en a thousand years
Where all my memories are
in onset oi loy Ive travelled long
winding wnys.
world around
bliss of youthiui days.
Then inks. ms in iron. things that art
No more than :r x! they
And let me aslk' the golden path
at hoyhocds eoriy dream
3151:01’ GIVES. G 4.
Ga uhlctic A
tor college nihietic competition
“Well.
George." said the eprIIesiident0 of
HG
ing by the Held in whkh Ch barley was wn
ed
“Well, well," said [he president.l
in; a little gullilly at George
And see you: are n
highly valued. Gnu obi"
d sri‘ said George, “the both of us was took
sic k ins week, snd they go at o dottar
for tho hoss, but they lust dociud my
pay."